interests that played a deci- sive role in the establishment of the auction mechanism. The article provides an analysis of the … formal and informal rules of the auction trade for real estate and argues that 19 th century real estate auctions did not … than auction theory assumes. …

implementation of the 3 pm local auction for quarters in Germany at the European Power Exchange (EPEX SPOT) in December 2014 to … challenges that are linked with a potential implementation of an intraday auction. …

increasingly used today. We develop a reverse auction which accounts for particularities of intermittent renewable energy sources … auctions. We analyze incentives for bidders to manipulate the auction outcome and adapt the design to prevent this behavior …

We analyze a drastic price increase in the German auction market for reserve power, which did not appear to be driven … back to an abuse of the auction’s pay-as-bid mechanism by the two largest firms. In contrast to theoretical findings, we …

reverse auction. Shares are allocated endogenously, depending on the suppliers ́bids. The procedure obtains dual sourcing by … than a standard auction for sole sourcing. We also show that providers reveal their costs truthfully and that the …

collusion significantly. We also explore the robustness of the results to characteristics of the auction environment that are …

I study auctions in which firms bid for licenses that reduce their marginal costs in a post-auction downstream market …. When there are three or more firms, I show that the Vickrey--Clarke--Groves (VCG) auction maximizes consumer surplus in … surplus is ambiguous. When the VCG auction does not maximize consumer surplus, I show that consumer surplus can be maximized …